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Te head o a small Seattle-based prisoner aid program, Jewish Pris-

oner Services International, is breathing easier or now ollowing

the dismissal o a long-running lawsuit.

Te 9th U.S. Circuit Court o Appeals reversed itsel on April 15 and

threw out a case brought by Dennis Florer, 45, serving time or stealing

a truck at an auto dealership and using it to run down a sales represen-

tative in 2003. His record also includes multiple cases o eeing rom

police and, in one instance, trying to run down a police ocer while in

a truck with his wie and two small children as passengers in 1999. He

also has a long disciplinary record in more than two decades behind

bars, including at least one accusation o white supremacist activity at th

prison in Clallam Bay.

In 2006 Florer accused JPSI o reusing to provide him with a ora

Jewish calendar and other Jewish materials through the groups chaplainc

program. His lawsuit or unspecied damages claimed that JPSI and i

chairman, Gary Friedman, acted under color o state law because Fried

man was a chaplain under the groups contract with the prison system.

In 2007 Judge Ricardo S. Martinez dismissed the lawsuit, but

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Kavana Cooperative cofounders Suzan LeVine, left, and Rabbi Rachel Nussbaum, accept owers from new president Scott Porad during the Seattle organizations f

anniversary celebration on July 5. More than 40 members and friends came to the beachfront at Golden Gardens for a picnic and a rousing rendition of Happy Birthda

Kavana was founded as an all-encompassing Jewish organization that incorporates prayer, learning and social justice and has closely tracked its programs to fulll

members needs. As was tting, Nussbaum, after her remarks, handed out a survey.

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I can only imagine what my grandather

experienced as a Jew in the Ukraine beore

he immigrated to America in 1905. In my

earliest memories he is very old; my mother

was the last in a large amily. In his musty

Victorian house in New London, Connecti-cut, there were antimacassars on the stued

chairs, a wood-burning stove in the kitchen,

and a crank-operated washing machine.

Te attic oered cobwebbed curiosities to

explore, and there was American history on

the roo: A widows walk or a whaling cap-

tains wie to watch or his topsails.

On a New England summer day in

1954, my grandather told me about Israel.

I was 9 and discomted by his unkempt

white beard.

In Israel, Jews ght. Jews win, he told

me, his eyes welling with tears o joy.

I quickly understood; in the world he

lef behind, Jews dared not ght and could

not win.

Now Im a grandather with no illu-

sions about my power to inuence my own

grandchildren. My grandather probably

elt the same about me. Yet his love or

Israel is seared in my memory. Te moral

imperative or a Jewish state pulsed rom

him to me like a jolt o electricity.

It lives on. His generation sent the early

pioneers to eretzIsrael. I will give voice to

the righteousness o their bold project as

long as I live. With all my heart, I will play

a part. Grandpa, you can count on me.

I am a member o speakers bureau or

the pro-Israel activist group StandWithUs.

I sell Israel to high school students. Omar

is a Palestinian boy sitting in the ront row,

curly hair, and skin the color o a mocha

latte. Hes riendly and well liked.

Understandably, afer my talk, he is

sullen. Im not prepared or his sweeping

accusation.

Why did you steal our country? he

asks. What country? I reply.

He knows I have him, so he restates the

question. Why did you steal our land?

o prepare mysel or this task I have

read everything rom the scholarly argu-

ments o Alan Dershowitz to the blogs o

Richard Silverstein, and much in between.

Im conversant on UN Resolution 242,

Oslo, Camp David and aba; but I am

unprepared or this question.

Zionist pioneers bought the land, I

oered, but his eyes made it clear there was

nothing I could say that would make a di-

erence to him. Lawyers say there are three

trials: Te one you prepare or, the one yo

argue, and the one that plays in your hea

afer its over. Selling Israel to 16-year-o

high school students is no dierent. I hav

been thinking about Omar and the oth

10th graders ever since.How do you talk about Israel to a tee

ager raised in the leay suburbs o Seattl

whose context or my presentation is like

nonexistent? Where do you start explainin

the history, orah, two Diasporas, the Man

date, ve wars, and the utility o the UN?

Lincoln wrote, I slavery is not wron

nothing is wrong.

In one clear sentence he renders poin

less and immaterial all arguments or con

tinuing slavery. In my mind, this is the ke

I have no hope o selling Israel by recitin

endless minutiae about reugees, settl

ments, and armistice lines. My only hop

is to appeal to their sense o what is man

iestly moral and immoral, so that even

16-year old with a tabula rasa between h

ears can eel it in his gut. I must make the

choose. Not between rich and poor, stron

and weak, but between right and wrong.

Tis is a monumental task. Our scho

children are cosseted young Siddhartha

Brahmans kept unaware o unpleasa

realities. Tey have been taught that a

people are basically good and all cultur

equally valuable. Tey have learned to di

trust the powerul and successul, wh

they believe, a priori, must have robbe

some oppressed underdog in som

colonial enterprise (how else did they g

rich?). Lie should be air, and i its no

somebody must do something about it

can only hope to shock them into rethin

ing how the world works.

Perhaps David Mamet, in his powe

ul new book, Te Secret Knowledge, h

asked the right question. Imagine you a

stranded in a oreign airport just as Wor

War III has started. You are given tw

choices: You can board an airplane o

Israel or another or Syria. Who amon

you would choose Syria? Not Chomsky o

Finkelstein, or the weirdly anti-Israel Jew

in the BDS movement. No, you wou

ght with every shred o inuence an

argument you could muster to get you

sel and your amily on the plane to Israe

Now, ask yoursel why.

I Israel, the nation that respects huma

lie and hungers or peace, is not mora

nothing is moral.

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Hes got a gift, and frankly its up to our community to keep him engaged in the Jewish community in a leadership role and provide him the opportunities to be a leader.

Rabbi Will Berkovitz on Josh Furman, one of our 10 Under 40 honorees. Read about Josh on page 2B.

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WhAt We should Ask oF ourselves

In response to Simcha Shtulls comments on Israel controlling the lives of 2.5 million Pal-

estinians (Israel must act, Letters, June 24).

This is a topic of discussion that can have many different views. Everyone has their opin-

ion on how to solve the tension between Arabs and the Jewish people. For many Arabs who

are living peacefully as Israeli citizens, they dont see much of an issue. Sure there can berelationship problems, but who doesnt have that?

For the most part there is actually a sadness among Israelis, Jewish and Arab, because

they want to have the friendships that were had long ago.

I am an American who spends much of my time traveling to Israel and often bringing a

group of friends with me. I have traveled the borders, visited and stayed in the Jewish com-

munities in the Shomron region of Israel, and have met with many people who talk about

their idea of solving the conict.

When I read letters that talk about the oppression of Palestinians I have to wonder if the

writers spend much time here in Israel or even stay in the contested areas. Have you met

with your brothers and sisters who live in these areas?

One thing I do know for sure, I can throw all kinds of factual reasons why Israel should

not give up land, but you have heard the facts. I would like to only say, giving land to a

people who hate you wont bring peace. Gaza is booming with beautiful malls, water parks

and restaurants, while Sderot, a town on the Israeli side, receives random rocket attacks.

I have experienced them. Itamar, a beautiful community in the Shomron, known for its

organic farming, has endured the random attacks on their citizens during Shavuot. You

cannot reason with this kind of hate that lls the hearts and minds of the Palestinian Arab

leaders.

As an American I have to ask on this Independence Day, should we give back the U.S.

land that was gained in war with Britain? If we are going to ask it of Israel then I believe we

must ask it of ourselves.

I urge the Jewish community to not sit here in the United States and tell your country

what to do. Spend time in Shomron, Sderot and along the borders. Talk to the Israeli people

about life here in Israel. Then give advice.

Israel is an amazing place lled with miracles and the most wonderful people who have

created most everything you have to run your life smoothly.

Lets support them.

ta Za

va, Wa.

Beyond comprehension

As a black American who keeps a watchful eye on Middle East anything, the person from

Seattle who writes: Israel currently controls the lives of 2.5 million Palestinians in the West

Bank. I therefore nd it difcult to understand Wendy Rosens dire prediction (Israel must

act, Letters, June 24). It is beyond my ability to comprehend! Israel is the size of a Q-Tip

by comparison to all of the Islamic nations that surround her and are calling for her destruc-

tion. The Palestinians who are actually Arabs tossed out of their countries have millions of

acres of land to simply return to and yet they want a country... out of Israel?

Allowing another murderous regime in the Middle East within the borders of the ancient

lands of Israel is just stupid! And so it goes with the American Jew born of the 60s, 70s and

80s. My gosh, why dont you go live in Palestine?

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Gg hab

Will the recognition and creation o

a Palestinian state by the United Nations

Security Council magically end Mideast

unrest? Can the UN ulll the role o theWizard o Oz and help ensure that such

a state truly serves its people? Palestin-

ian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas

has predicted that a Palestinian state will

allow his people to live as a peace-lov-

ing nation, committed to human rights,

democracy, and the rule o law, echo-

ing the sentiments o many in the inter-

national community. (New York imes,

May 16, 2011)

However, some in the Palestinian

community oresee a ar dierent kind

o uture. According to several promi-

nent Palestinian and Arab commenta-

tors and bloggers, this proposed prophecy

will never see reality as long as a corrupt

Palestinian leadership remains in place,

continuing the dishonest nancial deal-

ings that dened past PA President Yasser

Araat and now Mr. Abbas.

Sami Jamil Jadallah, a Palestinian

American and an international legal and

business consultant, recently wrote an

article or Washington, D.C.-based Pal-

estine Note that compared Israeli and Pal-

estinian leaders in light o Israels 63rd

anniversary. He described David Ben-

Gurion as having dedicated his lie to cre-

ating a nation out o the remnant o people

rom over 120 countries and succeeded in

having a state with governing institutions

on day one.

Jadallah harshly criticized Araat,

writing he had dedicated his lie to

political manipulation, lies, raud, cor-

rupting everything around him and ail-

ing his people at every turn, never having

achieved liberation or the return o reu-

gees.

He adds that Ben-Gurion did not

invite his amily and riends and associ-

ates to loot the country as Yasser Araat

did and that he is not aware o any Israeli

leader who became a multi-millionaire

while serving the nation and the people

while in public oce. Araats wie Suha

was reportedly promised $22 million a

year rom PA unds by Abbas ollowing

her husbands death. Abbas himsel lives

in a luxury villa worth $1.5 million.

Indeed it is the lack o accountability

o unds among the Palestinian leadership

that truly raises Jadallahs ire.

What we know is that the Palestin-

ian leadership never bothered to oper-

ate a transparent accountable system and

the PLO was and continues to operate as

a private closed corporation or the ben-

et o very ew selected and sel-appointed

members o the Executive Committee. We

never knew the hows and the whys o the

operation o the PLO and the Palestine

National Congress, he writes.

In 2006, the Palestinian Attorney Gen-

eral Ahmed Al-Moghani revealed that at

least $700 million o PA unds othersestimate up to $1 billion had been stolen

or squandered by corrupt Palestinian o-

cials. Some o the millions were trans-

erred into personal accounts abroad.

Jadallah ends his piece by describ-

ing the current PA government as lack-

ing the integrity, proessionalism and the

competency to achieve the end o occu-

pation. He writes that the PA promises

the people a virtual state with none o the

prerequisites o a modern nation state.

In addition to the questionable nancial

system the PA has in place, ree speech and

ree press under Abbas are also extremely

problematic. Human Rights Watchs April

6 report, No News Is Good News: Abuses

Against Journalists by Palestinian Secu-

rity Forces, highlights the way in which

Abbass PA security tortured, beat and

arbitrarily detained journalists.

Te report also cites the Palestinian

journalism watchdog MADA, which doc-

umented the number o physical attacks,

arrests, detentions, arbitrary conisca-

tions o equipment and other violations o

journalists rights by Palestinian security

orces this year increased in both Gaza and

the West Bank in 2010 by 45 percent rom

the previous year.

MADA also called or an immediate

investigation into a severe attack on Pal-

estinian journalists covering a youth sit-in

in Hamas-controlled Gaza on March 15,

2011. Te youth demanded an end to

internal political strie between Fatah and

Hamas. Internal security personnel at the

event attacked and beat the journalists

attempting to cover the event.

It is thereore not surprising that the

majority o Palestinians living in Jerusa-

lem would rather remain citizens o Israel

than become Palestinian citizens, i given

the choice ahead o the PAs bid or state-

hood. A poll conducted by Pechter Middle

East Polls ound that 35 percent o Pales-

tinians living in east Jerusalem would opt

to remain citizens o Israel, while 30 per-

cent would choose Palestinian citizen-

ship. Te remaining 35 percent declined

to answer or did not know. Te study

also ound that 40 percent o Palestinians

would likely move to Israel i their neigh-

borhood became part o Palestine.

Te creation o a Palestinian state via

the UN will in no way end the Mideast

conict, but will only add another dimen-

sion o instability to the region. Nor will

it serve the interests o the Palestinian

people. As o today, there is no serious

oundation or a stable democratic Pales-

tinian state, devoid o the corruption that

brought about the Arab Spring in the rest

N llw brick ra rPalstinian UN bi

anav silveRman Spcil to JTNws

o the Middle East. How can the interna-

tional community even consider that such

a state be created at this time?

For the Palestinians to live in reedom

and democracy, they must have honest

leaders, a sound electoral process, demo-

cratic institutions, transparent account-

ing, and a air judicial system. Under

Hamas and Fatah, the Palestinians have

none o these critical elements. Only lie

Abbass yellow brick road to the UN w

lead to nowhere.

Anav Silverman is an educator at Hebrew

Universitys Secondary School of Education in

Jerusalem. She previously worked as an

international correspondent at Sderot Media

Center.

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The help from JFS was a life saver in an ocean of despair. Emergency Services Client, Jewish Family Service

Eighteen-year-old high school student

air Bitton o Beersheva, Israel claims he

elt reborn upon nishing an afer-school

math class oered through a projectknown as the Michael Program. Te pro-

grams Israeli creators, Menny Barzilai and

Yuval Aloni, believe that every person can

achieve anything and characterize their

curriculum as a human-potential, science-

based, skill-driven, sel-reliance-promot-

ing, and liestyle-changing program.

I was brought to the world on 3

December 1993, wrote Bitton in a letter

to Yossi Ivgi, his mentor and a acilitator

in the Michael program, about his gradu-

ation, but the air who [is] speaking with

you now [was] born on 21 March 2010.

From July 719, Ivgi will bring a dozen

soon-to-be 12th-grade high school stu-

dents rom Beersheva to Seattle, its sister

city, on a dual mission with Rabbi Mark

Spiro, executive director o Seattle-based

LivingJudaism. Te students will meet

some o the Northwests top entrepre-

neurs as well as train Spiro to be one o the

rst acilitators or the program here.

Its a new paradigm to discover the

best way or a human being to live, Ivgi

toldJNews. Not by the spiritual way, but

the actual way, on the ground.

In their time here, the students will do

their best to show o some o the skills

theyve learned in the program to local

students and parents.

Te kids will also meet with executives

at Boeing, Costco, Microsof, venture-cap-

ital company Maveron, Nordstrom, and

Starbucks.

Tey are learning about the qualities it

takes to be successul and innovative, how

to utilize their talents, skills and creativity,

and they are getting a taste o some o the

best entrepreneurial qualities o Seattle,

Spiro toldJNews.

For what is being called the Partners

in Potential trip, the second year the two

have done this, Spiro and Ivgi will host a

couple o inormal and open community

meetings with the students as well as visit

local landmarks like Snoqualmie Falls and

the Pike Place Market and attend a Mari-

ners game. Tey will also spend a ew days

at Camp Solomon Schechter.

In his work at LivingJudaism, Spiro

teaches core Jewish principles that help

people be more successul in their work

lives, marriages, and riendships. He is

also a lie coach or individuals who want

to achieve more in their lives.

I will be teaching [the students] a

number o sessions, said Spiro. Tis

part o the Michael Program will be part

o the training that will launch here in the

United States.

Spiro decided to team up with Ivgi

while Ivgi was in Seattle or another Liv-

ingJudaism program called Wounded

Soldiers, a program that ormer LivingJu-

daism executive director Chaim Levine

now runs independently. At that time,

Ivgi, himsel wounded during his service

as a ormer Israeli Deense Forces pilot or

21 years, rst ocused on his own healing

and then began to counsel other wounded

soldiers back to mental health.

He earned a graduate degree in coun-

seling and is now working on his doctorate

in conict resolution at a Beersheva hospi-

tal, where he researches how the most suc-

cessul patients develop coping skills while

under extreme prolonged stress.

Ivgi is also executive director o

Mashav, Israels Agency or International

Development Cooperation within its

Ministry o Foreign Aairs. He calls the

Michael method and the programs devel-

oped in Mashav the solutionary (sic)

approach.

Students mainly need help with sel-

esteem, believing in their own abilities,

getting motivated, taking responsibility,

and changing their habits, he said.

According to Mashavs research, the

Michael Program attracts no less than 60

percent o its students rom disadvan-

taged homesrom the lowest socio-eco-

nomic levels.

Michael Program subjects include arts

and sel-expression, speed reading and

memory improvement, scientic theory,

math, emotional intelligence and lie-prep-

aration skills, learning habits, and more

while maximizing the eect o the mentor

or acilitator o each 35-student group as

being one o the most important environ-

mental actors in a students success.

Facilitators, said Ivgi, must never judge

a student or his ideas.

o be able to connect with everyone

with no issues and no judgment, Ivgi said,

and not to criticize, but to accept every-

one, and to understand that the level o

connection in a human being can create a

change in a human being.

Ivgi believes this idea is so undamental

that anyone aspiring to be a acilitator in

the program must have the quality o what

he calls naiveness. Tis idea is the sub-

ject o his book, titled Te Second Naive-

ness, set to be published later in 2011.

In Israel, the Michael method is a

14-week afer-school program that meets

one night a week or our hours. Studen

must commit to being on time and to

ishing the program.

Although the program descriptio

states that the spiritual oundation orm

the basis o consciousness, the Micha

program teaches a scientic hypothes

called the Gaia Principle, which asser

that the whole earth is a super organism

that seeks to protect its own survival an

that o all orms o lie on it. Because we

are interconnected, states the theory, w

are all responsible or each others welar

both animate and inanimate objects.

We are not dealing with God, sa

Ivgi. Were taking science as the majo

understanding o how the world is wor

ing.

Mashav wants to create a network

Michael method ranchises in vario

countries. International revenues wou

help to und educational activities in di

advantaged communities in Israel.

Israel, the Michael Program is a or-pro

enterprise with royalty payments th

recycle back into the Michael organiz

tion there.

Ivgi believes that this model o teachin

lie and learning skills based on the scie

tic method and applied determination

a revolution whose time has come.

A revolution means it doesnt matt

what place you are, you can jump ro

the bottom o lie to the top o lie, sa

Ivgi. People have the ability to make th

kind o change, not by positive thinkin

but actual hard work, taking responsib

ity and having the right skills.

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Correction

In the story about up-and-coming early childhood programs (New programs bring

Judaism to the tiniest learners, June 24), Chava Mirel was listed as a co-director o the

emple Bnai orah Solomike program. Leyna Lavinthal is the head o the preschool and

Mirel will be a music specialist.

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git es dem taten,veynen zey beyde.When a father gives to his son, they both laugh; when a son gives to

his father, they both cry.

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Sometimes aith is everything: It solves all problems, it creates happiness. At least thats what Rabbi Lazer

Brody, one o the ever-happy Breslev Chassidim believes.

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The director o Jconnect, Hillel at the University o Washingtons young adult program, never expected to

ollow this path. But his lie certainly prepared him or it.

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Hes a musician. Hes an acupuncturist. Hes a black belt in Kung Fu. And in his spare time Keith makes

sure that others can keep the same balance in their lives that he does.

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Sure, people make jokes comparing Jewish Republicans to the Loch Ness monster or some other fgmen

o their imagination. But Jeremy, chie o sta or the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, is

no joke.

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How many people do you know cook proessionally in their spare time while attending Stanord? Or

make huge meals or riends as a way o creating community? Or open their own restaurants so they can

do it on a larger scale? Thats Dave.

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Have you heard o Whitney? Legendary accessory designer Henri Bendel has. Hes started to carry her

jewelry designs. So have many women in hard-to-reach areas o Chile and Peru, where Whitney studied

and learned her crat.

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David Bezmozgis, who emigrated to Canada rom the ormer Soviet Union as a child, tells the story o

another amily that did the same thing. We review his frst ull-length novel, The Free World.

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Rabbi Lazer Brody has shoulder-length

graypeyot, a long gray beard, a white-knit

kippah topped with a tassel in the style o

Breslev Chassidim, and a nose that extendsnormally beore taking a sharp turn to

the lef. Despite his age, Brody conjures

an image o a playul, innocent child in a

snow hat. In halting Hebrew, he asks his

assistant i he can talk to a journalist.

Breslev Chassidim, the religious ol-

lowers o Rabbi Nachman o Breslev, who

are known or their impermeable happi-

ness, personal conversations with God

and ecstatic dancing, are a rarity in Seat-

tle. Rabbi Brody was brought to Seat-

tle by congregants o Sephardic Bikur

Cholim, Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath

and Congregation Shevet Achim. He pre-

sented several talks over the weekend o

June 24 on the topic oemunah, popularly

translated as aith.

Brody travels the globe sharing the

message o his spiritual guide, Rabbi

Shalom Arush, whose books he has trans-

lated rom Hebrew into English. Arush

has published several books in the spirit

o Rebbe Nachmans teachings, including

Te Garden of Emuna, Te Garden of Peace

(or men) and Womens Wisdom. Brody

hosts his own teachings through CDs and

his blog, Lazer Beams.

Personally, Im interested in gur-

ing out ways that Judaism can inspire

and challenge me, said Randy Kessler, o

Shevet Achim, on why he helped bring the

Breslev rabbi to Seattle. Kessler had read

Te Garden of Peace and was intrigued by a

Jewish perspective on relationships, some-

thing with which he had not been terribly

amiliar beore becoming observant.

Instead o asking the question, Why

have a Breslev Chassid come and speak to

our shul, the question is, Why not? said

Kessler.

Originally rom the Washington, D.C.

area, Brody turned to Rebbe Nachmans

teachings afer a near-death experience

while ghting with the IDF in Lebanon in

1982. Something was missing, he said.

Brody casts aside philosophy in avor

o a aith-based spiritual Judaism based

largely on Nachmans teachings and Kab-

balah.

I your connection with God is based

on intellect, explained Brody, tomorrow

morning somebody can come, and hes an

atheist with a stronger intellect than you,

and he can conuse you with all these ques-

tions and you lose aith. Tats why we put

intellect aside and we plug into God with

simple emunah.

Brodys talks at the Shabbaton in

Seward Park received a record numbers o

attendees, with each meal and talk seeing

between 100 and 150 people. On Sunday

at Shevet Achim, his talk on How to Pros-

per in a Recession drew substantial num-

bers again.

Brody emphasized our levels o achie

ing nancial success: One needs emuna

that God is the source o absolutely ever

thing; the husband needs to illuminate h

wies soul, that is, uphold a good ma

riage and in turn, the wie must do th

same; one needs to personally grow an

develop; and last but not least, one has

work. But the overall message is that ever

thing comes rom God, everything ha

pens or a reason, and God is listening.

Larry Adatto, a member o Sephard

Bikur Holim and one o the Shabbaton

organizers, said he has wrestled with h

own aith issues.

I knew that aith was my bigge

downall, my biggest shortcoming, and a

the things that I was doing wrong in m

lie I could trace them all back to my lac

o aith, Adatto said. So Ive been lookin

or some way to help me improve.

Had he improved? Adatto, wearin

a baseball cap with Lie is Awesom

stitched in rainbow colors, broke into

grin. He gave an example: As a dentist, h

used to worry about the money his pra

tice lost when clients would cancel o

short notice or didnt show up. Tis an

iety aected his sta and himsel. Now

he trusts that every loss will make itse

up. And it has, so he says: It comes bac

somehow.

Jack and Adina Almo were also instr

mental in bringing Brody to Seattl

Adina, who hosted approximately 12

women in her home Saturday afernoon

hear Brodys take on creating a soulma

union, said she and Jack began readin

Arushs books at the behest o her mothe

who was on a spiritual journey ollow

ing the death o her parents. Accordin

to Adina, one day Jack said, We need

dn wrry, b hy, hemunah

emily K. alhadeff, assistnt editor, JTNws

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Congregation Shevet Achim vice preside

Gregg Berretta with Rabbi Lazer Brody, holdi

Rabbi Brodys latest book, The Trail

Tranquility.seattle

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1Remembering the eel-

ing o ear and isolation

that haunted her as a

child in Rochester during herown mothers battle with breast

cancer, Anna Gottlieb became

a an and donor o the cancer

support organization Gildas

Club rom its earliest days in

New York. Visiting the original

acility, named or the late Sat-

urday Night Live comedian

Gilda Radner, she really ell in love and

decided to open a Seattle chapter.

Being stupid and stubborn I thought:

I can do this, she laughs.

I was airly new to Seattle; I wasnt the

person who could write a $25,000 check,

she says. It was a miserable, painul our

years o letter writing and phone calls.

A ve-year corporate sponsorship rom

Sears with support rom the oncology

community really got things going. Now

shes been running the organization, with

its own Capitol Hill building, or 10 years.

Anna and her husband, Charlie

Schmidt they met on a kibbutz in

Israel had moved to Seattle rom the

other Washington, where she worked

or AIPAC, the Justice Departments

Oice o Special Investigations and

or then-Senator Joe Biden.

Having attended grad school

in Oregon, she was pining

or the Northwest. Charlie,who works or Social Secu-

rity, managed to get a transer

and they moved out here with

their daughter, alia (son

Dannywas born here).

What Anna loves about

Gildas Club is that they serve

and support everyone. Shes

always ghting the misper-

ception that its a womens

organization.

We are or the whole amily, any stage,

any diagnosis, she says, also serving sur-

vivors with support and education.

Now they are taking cancer education

program into the workplace and into high

schools. wenty-ve percent o cancer

patients have a child under 18 at home, but

youre unlikely to nd anything about the

disease in school health curricula. Gildas

Club also sponsors a teen essay contest,

the results o which are on their website,

www.gildasclubseattle.org.

Grab a tissue, Anna says.

Fundraising is a constant concern. Te

club is best known or the annual Surviv-

ing With Style ashion shows in Seattle

and acoma, as well as or their gol tour-

naments.

Tis month brings a un partnership

with Seattle Chocolates and Majestic Bay

movie theater. Te chocolate company

owner Jean Tompson had a brush

with cancer has made special choco-

late bars, some o which have golden tick-

ets which entitle winners to a rare tour

o the company. Ten, on July 23 at 9:3

a.m., the Majestic Bay is donating its th

ater or a screening o the original Wi

Wonka and the Chocolate Factory sta

ring Gene Wilder, Gildas Club ound

and Radners husband. Te $20 admi

sion includes the chocolate. Teres mo

inormation about the event and all o G

das Club programs at their website.

2ee Sheffer has worked har

building his business, Signame

rics, these past two decades. No

Hlping vrn tuch b cancr Als: Bringing asuccssul businss t a cls

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Anna Gottlieb, founder of the Seattle chapter of

Gildas Club cancer-support organization.

CouRTeSY SHeFFeR FaM

Michal, left, and Tee Sheffer on a hike to the to

of Rattlesnake Ledge. The couple should ha

more time for these hikes now that Tee has so

his equipment testing company.

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I knew, o course, that

the Rapture advertised or

this past May 21 by Dispen-

sationalist theologian HaroldCamping would not come

on schedule. Afer all, how

could the beginning o the

end come the day beore Lag

Bomer, which this year ell

on May 22?

Would the Keeper o All

Community Calendars ignore

a dramatic conrontation between Camp-

ings timetable o salvation and the esti-

val day o the great anna, Rabbi Shimon

bar Yohai himsel a spark o the soul-

root o Moshe Rabbenu and eneshed in

latter days in such diverse mortal harbin-

gers o redemption as Rabbi Isaac Luria,

Shabbetai zvi, Rebbe Nahman Bratzlaver,

Teodor Herzl, and Michael Lerner (lets

hear it or tikkun ha-olam!)?

O course not! Moreover, youd think

that the One Who Neither Nods nor Sleeps

would have been more alert to the eschato-

logical portents o the Palestinians Yawm

al-Nakba, which has a lock on May 15.

How could He have missed by a whole

week, no less that opportunity or an

End imes perect storm?

So, when nightall came right on sched-

ule, late Saturday evening, May 21, 2011,

as I gazed at my ngernails in the light o

a havdalah candle, I was the last one to be

shocked at the ailure o the Saints o the

Church to rise up en masse to heaven.

Whence this eschatological skepticism?

Blame it on the almud! On all things mes-

sianic Ive always ollowed the advice o

Rabban Yohanan b. Zakkai, the greatest o

the post-Hurban sages o Yavneh. Coming

o age in the turbulent rst century o the

Common Era, he knew a thing or two

about messianic enthusiasm, and did his

best to quash it among his own ollowers.

Hes quoted as advising: I you are

planting a tree and someone says the Mes-

siah has come, rst plant the tree, and

then go to greet him.

Its not that Rabban Yohanan didnt

trust Gods redemptive promises. He

simply had problems with his contempo-

raries who sought to put God on a human

timetable. In his day, the ollowers o Mes-

siah Yeshua were only the most vocal o

those who believed that the messianic

prophecies o Scripture were about to be

ullled. More importantly, he insisted

against the zealots o his own day that

Gods plan had more to do with the prom-

inence o orah study in Israel than the

orce o Jewish arms.

Hence his proound advice: I the Mes-

siah turns out to be the Messiah, great.

But i hes a disappointment, at least youll

have shade and ruit afer a while!

And what Messiah, when you come

down to it, has not been a huge disap-

pointment? Its practically part o the job

description: Wanted: Attra

tive, charismatic leader, claim

ing Davidic lineage, willing

dash the hopes o the Jews bpackaging his ailure to deliv

as proo o his victory.

Camping would have don

better by his lock had h

ignored the book o Daniel an

read instead that 1956 class

o sociology, When Prophe

Fails, written by Leon Fes

inger, Henry Riecken, and Sta

ley Schachter (yes, all Jewish

Tey studied various Midwestern comm

nities who expected that, on a specic dat

the pilots o ying saucers would come

Earth to collect their specially chosen mem

bers or a better lie on alien planets.

Te main nding o the Festinger stud

is stunning: As the promised date cam

and went, and as newer calculations als

proved wrong, the groups commitme

to their belies ailed to wane. Rather, o

merly secretive conventicles, concerne

with preserving the privacy o their belie

transormed themselves into assertiv

proselytizing sects, seeking to spread th

good news o imminent redemption!

Te Festinger study proposed as a

explanation the now-amiliar concept

cognitive dissonance. Tat is, as un

damental belies are thrown into ser

ous doubt and publicly proven alse, th

gap between what we know and what w

believe becomes unbearable. We try

close this gap, quite simply, by enlistin

the comort o others who share our di

conrmed belies. Te energy thrown in

making converts consoles us by the visib

success o the mission and enables us

manage eschatological disappointment

ranslated into Jewish messianic idio

this boils down to: Te Messiah is th

Messiah, but the generation is unworthy

Festinger and his colleagues were aware,

course, o the dark corners o Jewish me

sianic ideologies. I doubt, however, th

the current crop o Camping camp-ollow

ers were equally aware o the sorry reco

o Jewish messianism. No doubt, eve

i they were, theyd have seen their ow

Christian version as the exception to th

rule. Afer all, these are Christians!

Whatever. Tis latest Christian mess

anic disappointment and undamenta

ist theological embarrassment shou

not go unnoticed by Jews. And not only

the schadenreude! Tose Dispensationa

ists who woke up on Lag Bomer mor

ing to the mockery o their neighbors (an

egg on their aces) deserve more than ou

bemused pity.

Tey are a warning to the people wh

gave the world the messianic idea th

Moshiach is always coming and we live

expectation o him always. But he is nev

Th raptur will nt btlvis: Wh G laughs

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sketch)33 Hag34 See 53-Across35 One quadrillionth: Prefx37 JFKs successor38 Lara o Tomb Raider39 Trade prohibition41 Home o the Braves43 What a runaway might be missing?45 Small amounts48 Parseltongue speaker49 Discoveryorg.53 With 34-Across, watching ones

weight54 Deeply desire56 Buddy57 Backtalk58 Fitting59 Shaqs alma mater60 Spot on a die61 Rock and Roll Hall o Fame architect63 Real-time ino on an airline website65 ___ continue?67 Gentlemans gentleman68 IBMs Watson et al.69 Once more70 Memorial tribute in verse71 Canadian speed limit sign abbr.72 Black Forest cake, e.g.

This Weeks Wisdom

Plant Treesby Andrew Marc Greene

2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle.

All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

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One day Honi the Circle-Maker met a man planting a carob tree. Honi asked, How long until

this tree bears fruit? The man replied, Seventy years. Honi asked, Do you expect to live

another seventy years? The man replied, As my ancestors planted carob trees for me, I plant

these for my children. Inspired by Honi, we have made circles and planted trees in this puzzle.

What will grow from their seeds?

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explorer who colonized Greenland11 Word on Washington, D.C. license

plates12 Devoured13 See 10-Down21 Last entry in a list, requently23 Corrida cheer24 See 1-Down25 Thing27 Steal rom29 Weight30 Blues great James32 Numbers needed by antasy

leaguers34 Im not bad, Im just ___ that way:

Jessica Rabbit36 Hockey great Bobby

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earth

o those who say we never

see miracles or talk directly

with God anymore, I say,

Nonsense. We constantly

stand in their presence; we

just ail to appreciate them.We ll our lives with distrac-

tions, and only notice mira-

cles that hit us over the head,

like tornadoes, volcanoes and

earthquakes, or childbirth,

inatuation and skydiving.

Its like Mel Brooks describing how the

concept o God originated (in Te 2000

Year Old Man): afer lightning killed the

terriying tyrant Phil, Brooks says, We

looked up at the sky and said, Teres

something bigger than Phil.

Abraham Joshua Heschel noted that

yirah (ear, awe, reverence) around natu-

ral phenomena can lead us toward belie

in a greater power. Even or quiet miracles

the growth o living things, the seamless

interactions o ecosystems, our ability to live

on Earth we must disconnect rom noise

and urgency, so we can listen and marvel.

hat s what summer

camps are made or. hey

take advantage o the power-

ul connection between the

great outdoors and Jewish

spirituality. According to out-door educator Rabbi Michael

Comins, nature is the every-

day home o wonder, the place

where most people regularly

and reliably experience awe.

(ejewishphilanthropy.com)

Teres something mirac-

ulous about Jewish overnight

camps. A comprehensive study rom the

Foundation or Jewish Camp shows that

children who attend overnight camps will

have higher engagement in Jewish lie as

adults. Camps generally weave respect or

nature into their joyous, active programs

(www.jewishcamp.org). And a very ew now

build their programs around Jewish eco-ide-

als, such as tikkun olam. In this time o global

warming and resource stress, we hope to

see more. Meanwhile, heres the short list o

those cutting-edge Jewish programs:

JCA Shalom (www.campjcashalom.com),

in the wooded hills above Malibu, Cali.,

or 2nd to 12th-grade kids. JCAS runs a

three-acre, organic vegetable and ruit tree

arm, which partially supplies its dining

service, uses only eco-riendly dining andcleaning products, heats its Olympic-sized

swimming pool with solar panels, and uses

solar electricity to power its ront gate, con-

erence center, retreat house and activity

center. It is developing a green site map o

camp, analyzes its ecological ootprint, and

reduces paper use with online registration

and electronic signature acceptance.

Camp Tawonga (www.tawonga.org),

welcomes 2nd to 12th grade campers to

its uolumne River acreage, just outside

Yosemite National Park. Campers can

hike, backpack, raf, camp and explore

the Sierra Mountain rivers, lakes, valleys

and hills, and learn about and embrace

the natural world. Camp emphasizes

alternative energy production, energy

and water eciency initiatives, recycling

and composting, local ood and materi-

als sourcing such as arm-to-table and

scratch-made, green building includin

milling on-site lumber.

Ramah in the Rockies/Ramah Ou

door Adventure, (www.ramahoutdoor

org/?page_id=20), a new, rustic outdo

program or 818-year-olds on a 360-acranch, 90 minutes rom Denver. Its solid

built base camp includes large, walle

platorm tents where chalutzim (pioneer

campers) and their madrichim (counse

ors) sleep, communal showers and sola

powered toilet acilities. Eco-riend

meals are served in the dining hall an

outdoor pavilions. Day and overnight raf

ing, hiking, biking, climbing and hors

back excursions take participants out

learn adventure and leadership skills, an

gain senses o personal responsibility

the worlds treasures.

Eden Village Camp/Jewish Farm Scho

engages 3rd11th-grade campers an

apprentices in organic arming, dairyin

and animal husbandry, natural science, ou

door adventures and skills developmen

g is in h sur

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QFC raises over $170,000 for the 2011

Komen Puget Sound Race for the CureBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist

On Sunday, June 5th, QFC held the honor o Local Presenting Sponsor

or the 18th annual Susan G. Komen Puget Sound Race or the Cure. It was

a truly inspiring day that united everyone in supporting our grandmothers,

mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins and riends who are ghting and

surviving breast cancer, and also in honoring those we have lost to the

disease. Te mornings atmosphere was as positive and vibrant as any Race

or the Cure I have attended gorgeous weather, delicious ood, exciting

entertainment, dedicated Komen sta and volunteers, and most important

was the enthusiastic crowd o thousands. Seattle Center was the place to be!

Tis marked the 5th consecutive year QFC has been the Races

Local Presenting Sponsor, and it was our goal to expand on the great

success we had in 2010. Our associates showed their passion and

commitment to the cause, to our customers and to each other in a

very big way. We had all 68 QFC stores represented with a team, as

well as one rom the corporate ofce in Bellevue. By Race Day, QFC

was 836 team members strong, up rom 675 in 2010 an almost

25% increase! In addition, QFC raised more than $170,000 or the Race

or the Cure through undraising events at our stores, through our Check

Stand Charity Program, by individual undraising, in registration ees, and

through sponsorship. QFC and many o our wonderul vendor partners

help provide the items or the Survivor Breakast as well. A denite

highlight was the over 900 chocolate covered strawberries, hand-dipped

by our QFC Uptown store team just a block away rom Seattle Center!

QFC was proud to be a part o this incredible community event. Tank

you to every QFC associate, amily member, riend, customer and vendor

or your support o the Komen Puget Sound Race or the Cure. It was a

very special day, and we look orward to another great event in 2012!

Eric Miller is the Public Aairs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at 425-990-6182 or eric.miller@qci.com.

July 12 at 7 .m.

rba cantll Game of Lies

Autho evnt

Rebecca Cantrell will read from her novel, Game of

Lies, about journalist and spy Hannah Vogel on the

eve of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Vogel goes under-

cover in this whodunit to search for clues about the

death of her mentor, and to get his secret package

out of Germany before her enemies (or her friends?)expose her true identity. Books will be available for

purchase. At Bellevue Regional Library, 1111 110th

Ave. NE, Bellevue.

July 23 at 7:30 .m.

el ronblatt

cont

Guitarist and vocalist Eli Rosenblatt

will perform his diverse repertoire.

Rosenblatts music is influenced by

Afro-Cuban and Klezmer rhythms,

and his songs range from the booty-

shaking danceable to the hauntingmelodies of Eastern Europe.

At Third Place Commons Stage, 17171

Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park. For

more information contact 206-366-3333 or visit www.thirdplacebooks.com.

on wooded land 50 miles north o New

York City. Among other activities, camp-

ers can harvest and grind wheat to bake

their own challah in a solar oven, bake pita

in a clay oven, and make pesto in a bike-

powered blender. EVC/JFS sets a zero-

waste goal, serves kosher organic oods,

and uses eggs, cheese, ruits and vegetables

rom its own arm.

Surprise Lake Camp/Teva Learning

Center (www.tevalearningcenter.org/

seminar3.php), 60 miles northeast o

New York City, or youth ages 715. SLC

works to reduce waste, cut its environ-

mental ootprint, inspire environmental

responsibility, and promote environmen-

tal education and stewardship. Every ses-

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he will be working perhaps a little less

hard over the next two years on closing

the Seattle-based company.

Last year, the very successul multi-

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uacturer was approached by Agilent

echnologies. Ater what sounds like

some gentle arm-twisting, we got boughtbythe worlds largest instrument com-

pany, ee says.

Signametrics is amous, in a way, in

those type o circles, in instrumentation

in the electronics industry, ee explained

to me. I cant pretend to understand the

technical details, but suce it to say that

their distribution is all over the world.

heir products applications vary

widely rom battery testing or the space

shuttle, to weapons system testing, to

component testing, to medical electronics,

and aerospace such as Boeing and EADS(Airbus), ee says. Any big-name com-

pany you have heard o is using our prod-

uct, rom China to India.

Your iPhone was probably tested with

Signametrics equipment.

We didnt look or anybody to buy

the company, says ee, who holds a dozen

test and measurement patents. hey

came to Seattle [with] their VPs, their big

guns, and talked us into merging with

their operation.

An Israeli native he grew up on Kib-

butz Ashdot Yaakov on the shores o thesea o Galillee ee and his wie Michal

arrived in Seattle about 40 years ago so

he could get a masters in electrical engi-

neering rom the UW. He then worke

or Fluke or 20 years. Michal, who he sa

more people know than me, worke

or Jewish Family Service or many year

More recently, shes been Signametric

CFO and operations manager.

Work is slowing down now, sa

ee, by which he means hes workin

40 to 50 hours a week and not the usu

60-plus. Tis leaves more time or yinhis simple, our-seater Cessna, whic

he takes up to the San Juan Islands at lea

once a week in the summer.

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Norm LevinSeptember 8, 1930May 21, 2011

1960 brought Norman Levin to the Seattle JCC as assistant

director and Camp Benbow director, the Golden Age Club

being his specialty. Having degrees in Social Work and

business, Norm then built and managed convalescent

health-care acilities. He became an advisor and consultant to

governments in healthcare everywhere. He was sought out or

his expertise, which led to world-wide travel rom Russia toHungary to China to Australia and Israel.

Norman was a lietime member o the Actors Equity. He

loved theater, and supported the opera and symphony. (He

co-starred in The Tendertrapwith Cloris Leachman). He was

the president o the Iowa chapter o American National Theater

and Academy. He played the trombone, guitar and piano. He

also taught ballroom dancing.

A sports addict, he loved the Sonics, Mariners and Seahawks as well as the Minnesota

Vikings.

Norm was a voracious speed reader, wrote copious letters to the editor and was a

well-know contributor.

Raised Orthodox, Norm spoke fuent Yiddish, read and wrote Hebrew, and mastered

Spanish. He taught his sons their Bnai Mitzvah.

He married his wie Karen Hocheld three months ater a blind date that lasted almost 49

years. Five wonderul children ollowed: Adam (Amy), Jason (Aviva), Seth Levin, Adrianne

(Steven) Shoeneld and Alison (Jason) Solam, as well as 10 wonderul grandchildren. He is

also survived by his brother Jules (Rose) and sister Lillian, plus his adorable mother-in-law,

Sybil Levy Tall.

William Richard LewisSept. 12, 1920June 23, 2011

William Richard (Bill) Lewis died at his home in Palm Desert,

Cali., on Thurs., June 23 o natural causes. He was 90.

Bill was born in Lynden, the second child o Lynden

Tribunepublisher Sol Lewis and Aimee Lewis, who also had

a daughter, Dorothy and a younger son, Julian. Bill, an Eagle

Scout, graduated Lynden High School in 1938.

He graduated the University o Washington with honors injournalism in 1942. Hed been advertising director o the UW

Daily, a member o Zeta Beta Tau raternity, and a clarinetist

in the UW Husky marching band.

He married Margaret Alexander o Seattle in 1942 and

served in World War II in the Navy on the U.S.S. Frazierin

the South Pacic, retiring honorably in 1945 as a lieutenant

junior grade.

He and Margaret moved to Lynden. He joined the sta o The Lynden Tribune, becoming

co-publisher with Julian ater Sol died in 1953.

Bill was president o the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association, Lynden Kiwanis Club,

and Lynden Chamber o Commerce. He helped launch the Lynden Pioneer Museum and Lynden

Swimming Pool. He also belonged to Toastmasters International and Rotary International.

In honoring him in 1984 with The Distinguished Service and First Citizen Award, the Whatcom

County Council called him the heart and soul o journalistic endeavor in Whatcom County.

Bill retired in 1984 but continued writing his column, At Deadline. He and Margaret lived in

Sudden Valley, Wash., and Palm Desert, Cali.

He was a lielong skier, sherman, goler, handyman, storyteller and, above all, a boater. He

owned a succession o cabin cruisers, each called The Four Bellesater his wie and three daughters.

He and Margaret ounded Chow Down to Washington, a successul annual University o

Washington alumni undraiser in Palm Desert and he helped organize reunions or the U.S.S.

Fraziercrew and the Northwestern Midshipmans School. In 1992 he received The U.S.S.

Fraziers Lone Sailor Service Award.

Survivors include Margaret, his wie o 68 years; daughters Marilyn Lewis o Port Townsend;

Barbara Morrison (Joseph) o Manhattan Beach, Cali.; Patti Lemlein (Neal) o Boulder, Colo.;

grandchildren Vasily Lewis, Seattle; Alexandra Lemlein, New York, N.Y.; Ryan Lemlein, Boulder,

Colo.; and Maggie Morrison, Manhattan Beach, Cali.

A celebration o Bills lie was held at the Bellwether Hotel in Bellingham on June 30.

Memorial donations may be made to the Lynden Pioneer Museum, 217 Front St., Lynden, WA

98264.

quite here. Te wisdom o Judaism lies in

living in the exquisite balance between

ever-present messianic readiness and

sober resistance to eschatological excess.

o put it in the homey idiom o my

Grandma Chanas avorite Yiddish apho-

rism, which, incidentally comes right out

o Rabban Yohanans card le: Mtracht

un Gott lacht! (We make plans, but Go

laughs).

Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &

Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at the

University of Washington. His award-winning

columns for JTNews have recently been

published in book form as The End of Jewish

Radar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic American

Judaism by iUniverse press.

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bring [Brody] out. We need to enhance the

spirituality in the Seattle community.

Adina Almo, a childhood cancer survi-

vor, said she has always been spiritual and

has beneted rom Brodys and Arushs

ideas o ocused prayer.

I always had this kind o inormal dia-

logue constantly with Hashem, she said,

but I like the idea o ashioning tailor-

ing your personal prayers even more

so.

Ruti Younker, a member o Ezra Bessa-

roth, lef the talk uplifed.

Its good to release tension over the

control you think you have in lie, she

said.

Brody appeared to alter when asked

i he had personally experienced a crisis

o aith.

I ask Hashem or aith every single

day, he said. I wish I were perect on

aith I try to be but I go to Hashem

with simple emunah.

I do spiritual Aikido with crises. he

added.

Brody said he uses the momentum that

comes rom the bad to thank and serve

God. Teres no bad in the world, he

said. It always turns out or the best.

Tough he has achieved success as an

internationally renowned speaker and a

growing spiritual guide, Brody shrugs it o.

Im just a mailman, he said. I dont

attribute my success to mysel. I attribute

all my success to my teacher, Rav Shalom

Arush, and I thank Hashem or giving me

the privilege o being the mailman and

bringing these wonderul teachings to th

English-speaking public.

But he does have one message that h

eels it is important to impart: I yo

dont have a smile on your ace, its n

Judaism. Youre missing something, h

said. And that missing element is th

number one: thats emunah. Emunah

going to bring you happiness and inn

peace, and thats what you want in lie. I

not the money. Its not the garbage...ju

go or emunah.

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three-judge appeals panel ruled last year

that Florers accusations might have merit

and remanded the matter to Martinez or

a closer look. Martinez again rejected Flo-

rers claims, citing the standard set in an

8th Circuit appeals case, and this time the

9th Circuit panel agreed.

Tis is the rst time in a decade, Ithink, that we havent had some lawsuit

pending against us, Friedman said.

Overall, Friedman said, the group typi-

cally aids about 40 local, state and ederal

inmates and their amilies in Washington

State at any given time, including read-

justment assistance to convicts who have

served their time.

he annual budget o the group,

ounded as a part o Bnai Brith Interna-

tional, has shrunk rom $250,000 in 1997

under BBI to $155,000 ve years ago to

$70,000 last year, Friedman said.

We are probably the least popular

cause in Judaism, he said.

Nonetheless, the Florer case has drawn

widespread attention among those con-

cerned with all types o religious services

or prison inmates, said Friedman, who

has also served as communications direc-

tor o the American Correctional Chap-

lains Association or the past 14 years.

Across the country, this is going to

beneit chaplaincy programs, he said.